Dry Head and Bloody Bones

An American horror story for this Halloween:

On November 20, 1936, in Jacksonville, FL a WPA field worker named Rachel Austin interviewed a former enslaved person named Florida Clayton (she was given that name as the first in her family born in that state).

The rest of this story is too upsetting to reprint, it can be found in The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, volume 17, Florida Narratives, reprinted 1972. Or here.

Dry Head and Bloody Bones. If you go poking into American history you’ll find some scary stuff!

Be safe out there this Halloween! 🎃